Recently added articles from The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences:
Lithium and pregnancy/Response by authors, Professor Ornoy and Dr. Yacobi
Oct 01, 2008; ... Dear Editor, The paper of Yacobi and Ornoy (1) is a scholarly and comprehensive review with an extraordinarily important impact for psychiatry. There is no question that the authors are correct that the physical teratogenicity of lithium was exaggerated in early studies, due to the ...
Jewish children hidden in France during World War II who stayed in France since Liberation: psychology and psychopathology study
Oct 01, 2008; ... Dear Editor, Within the context of a special issue on the subject of the Shoah and Psychiatry, I would like to bring to the attention of journal readers a recent study for a doctoral degree I have just completed. It concerns the psychic construction of people who, as children, were ...
Childhood in the Shadow of the Holocaust Survived Children and Second Generation
Oct 01, 2008; ... Childhood in the Shadow of the Holocaust Survived Children and Second Generation Editors: Z. Solomon and J. Chaitin DanaCode: 31-4311 Recommended price: NIS88 Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd., 480 pages, 2007, in Hebrew Throughout the years it has been a commonly held, albeit ...
The Influence of Immigration on the Mental Health of Those Seeking Psychiatric Care in Southern Israel: A Comparison of New Immigrants to Veteran Residents
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract: Objective: The wave of immigration from the countries of the former Soviet Union from 1990 to 2006 brought to Israel over 1,000,000 people. Many of them suffer from different diseases including mental disorders. Although the majority of older persons are free of serious ...
The Civil Liability for Damages of the Criminally Insane
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract: As a rule, mentally ill patients are held to be responsible for their acts just like everyone else. Notwithstanding, the law in Israel contains special rules which distinguish individuals with mental illness from other people. The instructions laid out in article 34h of the Israeli ...